A STRIDE TOWARDS NEW ERA ‘SEX WORK AS LABOUR’

Sex trafficking, sex work, and violence: evidence for a new era.

Immunotherapy of Cancer: towards a New Era

In the past two decades, immunotherapy of cancer has developed into an established treatment option. At first, the development of monoclonal antibodies targeting overexpressed cell surface molecules on tumour cells resulted in improved survival when combined with standard chemotherapy or radiotherapy. More recently, T cell immunotherapy has impacted on survival of certain cancer types. In melan...

Vitamin D: Is There a New Era?

  Background: In recent decades, much interest has been focused on investigating new roles of vitamin D in human body beyond the mineral-ion homeostasis. Methods: By searching medical databases such as PubMed, over 16000 articles were found which have been published since 2000 on novel aspects of vitamin D in health and diseases. Results: Of great interest was the effects of vitamin D on ...

Are attitudes towards bioethics entering a new era?

Since the human life process is at their roots, a legal framework without precedent for medical practice and research was bound to develop from modem biology and genetics. A vast amount of legislation has been enacted in the field of bioethics. Committees on the ethics of living sciences have blossomed. The latest of these committees was set up by President Clinton in the US. Within the United ...

Another Stride Towards Knowledge-Based Machine Translation

Building on the well-established premise that reliable machine translation requires a significant degree of. text comprehension, this paper presents a recent advance in multi-lingual knowledgebased machine translation (KBMT). Unlike previous approaches, the current method provides for separate syntactic and semantic knowledge sources that are integrated dynamically for parsing and generation. S...